This is more like a warning than a hint. I was trying to read some articles in PDF format and I realized that Acrobat Reader closes some of its windows without asking me.
To conduct my research, I have downloaded many articles from scientific journals so I can work on these articles at home, in the train, beach :) etc. not just in the library. Today I wanted to perform a massive search, opening all of the articles in several folders and selecting the ones that are about the issue I'm working on at the moment.
However, anytime I opened the full content of a directory (select all in Finder and press Command-O), the articles from previous directory I had minimised in the Dock got *boof* closed. That is very annoying!
[robg adds: In a follow-up with VEGx, and some subsequent experimentation on my own, we figured out that Acrobat Reader has a 20 document limit. You can open 20 PDFs without any problem, but the 21st will close one of the open windows to make room for itself. So if you have 15 open and drag 10 more into Acrobat, you'll wind up with all 10 of the new ones, plus 10 of the originals. I couldn't find a preference setting to tweak this limit in any way...]
To conduct my research, I have downloaded many articles from scientific journals so I can work on these articles at home, in the train, beach :) etc. not just in the library. Today I wanted to perform a massive search, opening all of the articles in several folders and selecting the ones that are about the issue I'm working on at the moment.
However, anytime I opened the full content of a directory (select all in Finder and press Command-O), the articles from previous directory I had minimised in the Dock got *boof* closed. That is very annoying!
[robg adds: In a follow-up with VEGx, and some subsequent experimentation on my own, we figured out that Acrobat Reader has a 20 document limit. You can open 20 PDFs without any problem, but the 21st will close one of the open windows to make room for itself. So if you have 15 open and drag 10 more into Acrobat, you'll wind up with all 10 of the new ones, plus 10 of the originals. I couldn't find a preference setting to tweak this limit in any way...]
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